Yellow Book n.
The print version of this Jargon
File; "The New Hacker's Dictionary" from MIT Press; The book
includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by
Guy L. Steele Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most
importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost
all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each
attached to an appropriate entry. The first edition (1991, ISBN
0-262-68069-6) corresponded to the Jargon File version 2.9.6. The
second edition (1993, ISBN 0-262-68079-3) corresponded to the Jargon
File 3.0.0. The third (1996, ISBN 0-262-68092-0) corresponded
to 4.0.0.
The print version of this Jargon
File; "The New Hacker's Dictionary" from MIT Press; The book
includes essentially all the material the File, plus a Foreword by
Guy L. Steele Jr. and a Preface by Eric S. Raymond. Most
importantly, the book version is nicely typeset and includes almost
all of the infamous Crunchly cartoons by the Great Quux, each
attached to an appropriate entry. The first edition (1991, ISBN
0-262-68069-6) corresponded to the Jargon File version 2.9.6. The
second edition (1993, ISBN 0-262-68079-3) corresponded to the Jargon
File 3.0.0. The third (1996, ISBN 0-262-68092-0) corresponded
to 4.0.0.
Related:
- Yellow Book: [proposed] n. The print version of this Jargon File;
"The New Hacker's Dictionary", MIT Press, 1991 (ISBN... - SMILEY
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1..0.... - Red Book n.
1. Informal name for one of the four
standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language
Reference Manual",
Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67... - Martin: How about this, guys? Bart can have it Mondays and
Thursdays,
Millhouse will get it Tuesdays and Fridays, and ... - Duff's device n.
The most dramatic use yet seen of fall through in C,
invented by Tom Duff when he was at L Trying to... - 0 0) Kilroy was here
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[__\_[__])))))-
0 0 O-O-O... - Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
0. integrated 0. management 0.
options 1. total 1. organizational 1. flexibility...
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- byte sex n.
[common] The byte sex of hardware is
big-endian or little-endian;
see those entries... - quux /kwuhks/ n.
[Mythically, from the Latin
semi-deponent verb quuxo,
quuxare, quuxandum iri; noun form variously `quux'... - XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n.
The famed Palo Alto
Research Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into ... - heavy wizardry n.
Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate... - fall over vi.
[IBM] Yet another synonym for crash or
lose.
`Fall over hard' equates to crash and burn...
